CICC's Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE)

About This Program

Target Population:
For parents of Latino descent who are raising children in the United States, both Spanish and English speakers

For parents/caregivers of children ages:
2 – 12

Program Overview

The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring’s (CICC) LNBE program is a parenting skill-building program created specifically for parents of Latino American children. It is designed as a 12-session program to be used with small groups of parents, and as a one-day seminar for large numbers of parents.

Program Delivery

Parent/Caregiver Services

Parents of children displaying disobedience, aggression, shyness, tantrums, and the whole spectrum of childhood behavior problems

Recommended Intensity:

Three-hour sessions weekly or a 6.5 hour one-time seminar

Recommended Duration:

12 weeks of sessions or the one-day seminar

Delivery Settings

This program is typically conducted in a(n):

Adoptive Home

Birth Family Home

Community Agency

Foster/Kinship Care

Hospital

Outpatient Clinic

Residential Care Facility

School

Homework

CICC's Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) includes a homework component:

Each session has homework and/or home behavior change projects with the targeted child.

Languages

CICC's Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) has materials available in
a language other than English:

Spanish

For information on which materials are available in
this language,
please check on the program's website or contact the program representative
(contact information is listed at the bottom of this page).

Resources Needed to Run Program

The typical resources for implementing the program are:

The Parent Handbooks with program and skill descriptions

An overhead projector and screen

Space for 8-12 parents with enough room break into dyads for skill practice

Laptop Computer

Projector/screen

DVD Player/monitor

Dry erase board with pens and eraser

Education and Training

Prerequisite/Minimum Provider Qualifications

The program is designed to be led by one instructor who presents the program, demonstrates and models the skills, and provides individual consultations to parents on their home behavior change projects. Practitioners ranging from paraprofessional prevention specialists and parent involvement coordinators to children service workers with Bachelor's level degrees to psychologists with doctorate degrees have been trained to deliver the program. It is best to have had prior training in behavior modification or behavior analysis, as well as education and training in child development and group dynamics. In addition, exposure to Latino Studies courses and materials is helpful. The majority of the 1500 instructors trained and certified in this program have been of Latino descent, bicultural, and bilingual.

Education and Training Resources

There is
a manual that describes how to implement this program , and there is
training available for this program.

Summary:(To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations)
A focus group evaluation was conducted on the Los Niños Bien Educados parenting course to investigate how a cultural frame of reference used in parenting classes for Latinos affects the experiences of the parents who attend them. Results suggested that a cultural frame of reference in parenting courses for Latinos results in increased motivation to continue attending the classes, stronger connection to the course and information, improved parent-child relationships, improvement in cultural adjustment to the U.S., and improved learning of parenting skills. Limitations include the small sample size and the qualitative nature of the study, which doe not report on outcomes of the program.

The CEBC is funded by the California Department of Social Services’ (CDSS’) Office of Child Abuse Prevention and is one of their targeted efforts to improve the lives of children and families served within child welfare system.